Television pictures showed Italian police flailing at United supporters with batons, leaving several of the English club's fans bleeding profusely from head wounds.
One policeman was shown raining blows on a supporter who lay motionless on the ground.
"The police just went in indiscriminately hitting anyone and everybody...Reuters TV.http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport

This was an appalling example of heavyhanded and totally unnecessary violent reaction by Italian authorities towards British football supporters. however despite a wealth of images and footage available of the abuses i note there has been no world wide condemnation of the polices actions and no intention expressed by the Italian authorities to deal with the officers who lost control.

i note with a certain degree of cynicism that in another public order situation in Iraq in 2004 involving British soldiers that the reverse was true. a limited number of images were broadcast around the world and those involved were pilloried and found guilty almost immediately by the worlds media. Our politicians couldnt wait to find scapegoats soon after in order to appease the world of journalism. i note no such reaction by the Italian government.

The polices actions have been excused due to the death of ONE officer during a local match. It has been seen as understandable that their responses have been more robust as a result.

If our soldiers in Iraq had dealt this level of violence all hell would have broke loose despite the provocations they face every day and the level of casualties we have suffered. Despite this they show admirable restraint in often very trying circumstances something extremely lacking by the Italian police.

i also note no criticism has been offered by the Bliar regime for an attack on British citizens attending a football match.

as i was watching the images on the news and scanned the papers this morning i couldnt help but draw a comparison between the two events.

Maybe i am wrong to do so. Maybe the media will wake up and criticise the Italian police and demand action against the officers concerned. Maybe our own government will demand answers but who am i kidding. the Italian government supports its police and armed forces while ours .....well...

english fans are considered fair game for a spot of baton practice all over europe and have been for about 25 years even though the hooligan element is pretty much gone from our country the way the italians and especially the turks behave (only at home games being cowards) would have gotten the english another ban from european competitions

How is it this country has driven this bull out of the stadium yet the Italian's haven't. The media time one fella got for having a pop at Lampard is ridiculus in comparison.

Basically the Italian Police chose to fight the Brits 'cause it was easier than fighting the Facist Italian fans. Remember it wasn't that long ago they shot dead a copper in Italy during rioting, ban them for 20 years, kunts.

We slate our coppers but they would never wade in indiscriminately like that.

How is it this country has driven this bull out of the stadium yet the Italian's haven't. The media time one fella got for having a pop at Lampard is ridiculus in comparison.

Basically the Italian Police chose to fight the Brits 'cause it was easier than fighting the Facist Italian fans. Remember it wasn't that long ago they shot dead a copper in Italy during rioting, ban them for 20 years, kunts.

I remember when England had to get a draw in Italy to go to a world cup.
The Italian fans were p1ssing in cans and bottles , then started throwing them at the England fans.
The England fans returned the cans and bottles.
The Italian police then lined up and started to advance towards the English,so the English just sat down.
The Italian police started to smash the heads in of the nearest fans ,regardless that some of them were very old and had children with them.
When the police chief was asked why they did this he said "When we advance the Italian fans run away , and when the English sat down we did not know what to do"

It was only Mancs, at least it wasn't real people.
Will the events in Rome and Lille stop them singing their 'hilarious' Hillsborough and Hysel songs?

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I wonder how many real Mancs were actually there? Looking round the fans I could see flags from Carlisle, Watford and Norwich (Norwich!)
Pointless moaning about this anyway, in Europe any Brits are fair game.